Westlife beat Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in UK album battle

Westlife have beaten off Oasis, U2 and The Beatles to win the battle for Number One in the album chart tonight (November 26).

The boy band’s new studio covers ‘Love Album’ beat off all three ‘Best Of’ collections released on November 20 on what was declared “Super Monday”.

Oasis were in at Number 2 with ‘Stop The Clocks’ closely followed by The Beatles’ classic re-workings ‘LOVE’ album at 3 and U2‘s ’18Singles’ LP at four.

Elsewhere Foo Fighters went in at Number 35 with their acoustic live album ‘Skin & Bones’.

Fellow boy band Take That knocked Akon off the top spot in the singles chart with their comeback single ‘Patience’ after jumping up three places from last week’s new entry, which was based on downloads alone.

They knocked the rapper’s single ‘Smack That’, which also features Eminem, into second spot.

Emma Bunton was the highest climber in the Top 10 with her single ‘Downtown’ jumping 21 places to Number 3.